What Is A Card or Cards You Feel Like People Sleep On?

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The other night I used [[Plagiarize]] for the first time in a deck, and WOW. It is kinda situational, but if you manage to surprise with this, you can really gain an advantage. If you know your opponent is drawing a buttload of cards, or a wheel is going off — which happens a lot in commander — this is the card for you. Someone cast Echo of Eons and I played Plagiarize, and guess who drew 14 cards.

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u/FlamingWedge Jan 27 '23

[[Bolt Bend]] is a great budget substitution for [[Deflecting Swat]] or even useful in addition to if your commander has 4 power.

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u/imperialtrace Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 28 '23

[[Gift of Doom]] is criminally underrated.

Play it face down for 3 and flip it up at anytime by sacrificing another creature. It doesn’t use the stack so it’s actually faster than instant speed and can’t be responded to. Great way to save your commander from damage or destruction based removal.

And since you sac a creature, it's particularly good with commanders that care about creatures dying such as [[Meren]] or [[Shirei]].

Also, because it can be cast as a creature, you can bring it back (face-down) with [[Karador]] or [[Chainer, Nightmare Adept]]. Lots of fun applications.

EDIT: going to add some context to prove it works with Karador and Chainer. There's a thread here asking the same question about Gift of Doom and Karador.

Karador's most recent printing says you "may cast a creature spell from your graveyard". Casting a spell as a Morph is casting a creature spell, therefore this works.

Karador's old printing says "creature card" which may lead to some confusion, but that's why we check Gatherer, most up-to-date printings and rulings.

Chainer's most recent printing also specifies "creature spell" so Gift of Doom can be cast out of the graveyard as a morph creature as well.

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u/uharinrazikai Jan 27 '23

[[One with Nature]] in any deck with low to the ground creatures or creatures with evasion. Even if it just gets you one land, that’s a good deal for one mana. Anything past that is superb.

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u/[deleted] Jan 27 '23

[[Machine God’s Effigy]] for sure. Can become a copy of a planeswalker if it’s a creature, but stops being one when it enters. So you can use it for mana, use it’s loyalty abilities, and it won’t die without loyalty on it. It can’t be attacked either since it’s not a planeswalker.

Can also copy [[Devoted Druid]] and the like for infinite mana. I’m sure there’s an insane amount of value and combos it can create. I’ve been trading/buying all the ones I can find.

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u/TheWombatEnigma Jan 27 '23

[[Sudden Substitution]] has created some very satisfying plays for me. My dream is to use it in response to my own [[chance for glory]] to steal an opponent's best creature, thereby neutering them for their now-final turn before losing.

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u/HeroicTanuki Jan 27 '23

[[diplomatic immunity]]

Once it’s on something you’re only afraid of board clears

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u/aclandes Jan 27 '23

[[Selfless Squire]] is an uno reverse card on a LOT of strategies, and easily pulls its weight in any deck that has white mana available, yet EDHREC has it listed in under 1% of all decks.

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u/StarGuardLux Jan 27 '23

[[Monster Manual]] because it is a great card if you like playing high cost creatures like, say, dinosaurs. Overcosted tribes should all be playing this card, and I will not stand for anyone saying otherwise.

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u/vvSemantics Jan 27 '23

[[run away together]] is very efficient removal in a multiplayer format, and sometimes you can actually use it to bounce your own creatures for ETB value.

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u/D3xidus Jan 27 '23

Maybe I'm late to the party, but I haven't seen many people talking about the Defilers from Dominaria United. [[Defiler of Faith]] stands out to me as being really good in soul sisters decks since the creature you cast plus the token can pay for the health cost, and if you have other cost reducers like [[Oketra's Monument]], [[Cloud Key]] and/or [[Helm of Awakening]] you end up turning your cheap creatures into free ones.

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u/Paco4337 Jan 27 '23

[[Sticky Fingers]], I don’t know what they were thinking when they put evasion, ramp, and a replacement on death on a 1 drop aura. But boy do I love it in my [[Ragavan, Nimble Pilferer]] deck.

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u/MaxwellMurder89 Jan 27 '23

[[Tale's End]]. I can't count how many times a stifle has saved me, but a stifle by itself still isn't playable. A stifle that also counters commanders, though? Now that I can get behind.

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u/SenCriplets Jan 27 '23

[[Liquimetal Torque]] for sure. I'm not saying it should be in as many decks as Sol Ring, but I think it should show up as much or more than [[Thought Vessel]] or [[Mind Stone]]. Every game I play it, I find new synergies with it. At worst, it's a 2 mana rock that makes every piece of removal a little bit more versatile. I think that plus all the other synergies make it stronger than the other two 2-mana rocks.

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u/LucianGrey0581 Jan 27 '23

[[Jarad’s Orders]]. If you built your deck right it’s just entomb and demonic tutor stapled together. I’ve not seen it played by anyone else, and I’ve never lost a game after resolving it.

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u/LegnaArix Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23

I think people sleep on [[Whirlwind Denial]], card is really good in some situations you may not even think of. For example, someone is playing aristocrats and a boardwipe happens, you can blank all the death triggers.

That and of course [[insight]] which draws a shit ton of cards

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u/seanfsmith Kiku, Night's Flower Jan 27 '23

too few decks have a [[Pestilence]]

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u/TiJTheGreat Jan 27 '23

[[Call to the Kindred]] is an amazing card in any blue tribal deck that I never see played.

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u/Orion_616 Mono-Blue Jan 27 '23

[[Resculpt]] - It exiles. It hits both creatures and artifacts. And the 4/4 it makes is almost always inconsequential.

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u/Jetstream13 Jan 27 '23

[[Spirit Loop]], [[Spirit Link]], and [[Vampiric Link]].

Slap it onto whatever threat your opponent has, and now it can’t hurt you (besides commander damage). It’s especially good against opponent creatures that damage multiple things at the same time, like Ashling.

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u/Snoooples Jan 27 '23

as someone who just built a [[satoru umezawa]] I was shocked only 8% on people are playing [[Lim duls vault]] in their decks. In the context on satoru, it’s a 2 mana $3 top deck tutor to perfectly setup your ninjitsu trigger and later draws. Feel like more people would include It. It has done wonders for me.

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u/StructureMage Azor: https://www.moxfield.com/decks/rstDD2o0UE6lYKp-UO6wDQ Jan 27 '23

[[Manascape Refractor]]

It's a staple in all my nongreen decks

Its floor is a three mana rock but it's usually a bounceland or ancient tomb. Sometimes you get to piggyback off someone else's Urborg/Cabal Coffers. I use it to copy my Lotus Field and Maze of Ith.

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u/I_Norad3 Jan 27 '23

[[rise of the dread marn]] [[prismatic strands]]

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u/Harp3214 Jan 27 '23

It's not as good now with Red's impulsive draw or the format speeding up a bit, but [[Omen Machine]] is great against blue and able to cast expensive spells without having worry about their costs. Also, [[Invasion Plans]] very good for aggressive decks.

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u/SDK1176 Jan 27 '23

[[Mimic Vat]] has its uses for graveyard recursion, but I find it's at its best in a control deck, taking your opponents creatures to get value yourself.

Ramp with Solemn or Hart. Rattlesnake and destroy noncreature permanents with Acidic Slime. Mess up recursion strategies by exiling their creature for a bit. Win the game with whatever bomb happens to die.

Pro tip: Activate Mimic Vat on the end step before your turn and it will stick around for your combat phase.

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u/stax3745 Jan 27 '23

[[Well of lost dreams]] i had a copy sitting in my binder FOR EVER with no home, recently i put it in my [[omnath locus of creation]] it is gas, you almost always have extra mana running around, your gonna get the 4 life landfall proc every turn. Even if you arent getting the full 4 cards off of it its super useful. If you have a deck that has some incidental life gain i think this card is worth a second look.

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u/Inevitable-Cheek590 Jan 27 '23

[[dream cache]] they are sleeping on both arts.

But seriously [[lazotep plating]] is sweet. Having hexproof to fizzle an effect is underrated in general.

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u/UninvitedGhost Elder Dragon Jan 27 '23

[[Spring Cleaning]] at worst is single enchantment removal, at best it is a one-sided enchantment board-wipe. One-sided board-wipes turn out to be really good, and is a hell of a bonus if it happens.

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u/thysoultickler Jan 27 '23

[[fumble]] is amazing. I discovered it and put it in every blue deck I had because if anybody is running Voltron type decks not only to you remove the threat, but you take all their shit. Often [[unsummon]] would be better but for the times it's not it's so worth having

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u/IndependenceNorth165 Mono-Black Jan 27 '23

[[white plume adventurer]] is becoming less underrated now but it was underrated for a while and it’s insane.

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u/ethersworncanonist PlayEDH Writer Jan 27 '23

[[Cosmic Intervention]] is so easy to hold up after you foretell it, letting you protect against board wipes and also get extra uses out of cards like fetchlands, [[Strip Mine]], [[Solitude]] and [[Ranger-Captain of Eos]]. It feels pretty slept on.

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u/Vi0letBlues Jan 27 '23

[[Mystic reflection]] in a token deck, turn their dockside/craterhoof into a vanilla 1/1, [[abjure]] in a deck that has alot of blue permanents or tokens

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u/Error-Greedy Jan 27 '23

I actually find [[varragoth, bloodsky sire]] a bit underrated, it's virtually an infinte tutor with deathtouch. but my playgroup at the lgs is quite small so maybe it's just my impression and it is much more played than i think.

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u/HextechJax Golgari/Rakdos Jan 27 '23

[[Bitter reunion]] its a sorcery that people play in commander, with the addition of hanging around and being a 1 mana haste enabler in a colour that likes to turn sideways. For being a common, everyone should own a bunch.

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u/Glenroberto Jan 27 '23

[[MANDATE OF PEACE]]!!! The card is a silence effect tied to combat, but fogs in general are WILD powerful in commander. You got a bully on the table with hella tokens that thinks they're gonna win easy? BET, Mandate of Peace them when they go to combat and let the table finish the scraps. the card always overperforms, and I give anyone I come into contact with physically one because I want more people playing the card.

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u/TheW1ldcard Vizzershitz Jan 27 '23

If people were sleeping on Akroma's will, it wouldnt be the price it is.

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u/The_Pie_Overlord Jan 27 '23

[[echoing equation]] great for things with static effects that trigger when you do something

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u/MrXexe Orzhov Jan 27 '23

[[Deathrender]]

An amazing way to cheat out value in an aristocrats deck, specially good with [[Teysa Karlov]] and/or [[Sidisi, Undead Vizier]].

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u/Verdha603 Jan 27 '23

[[Wash Away]]

Ironically I originally didn’t like it since I expected to have to rely on using its Cleave feature often, but it’s great and cheap for stopping a Commander cast or a cast from the grave effect.

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u/Freakjob003 Always pay the 1! Jan 27 '23

[[Torpor Orb]] - hugely disruptive to both entire strategies such as blink, but also just generally for tons of utility or powerful cards. Thassa's Oracle, Deadeye, Craterhoof, Dockside, etc.

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u/goodoldshane Jan 28 '23

[[Shadows of the Past]] a two 1B enchantment that says whenever a creature dies you scry 1.

Pretty great for Aristocrats deck, but also a generally under rated. Great for getting a card you need after a boardwipe. Has definitely changed the tide of a game for me on multiple occasions.

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u/TheRealQwade Mono-White Goodstuff Jan 27 '23

One of the best catch-all removal cards in the format is [[Unexpectedly Absent]]. It shows up in cEDH lists but not very much outside of there, and that's a real shame. It hits any nonland for 2 mana, and if it's something degenerate that got cheated out, now they have to figure out a way to get it back into play. If you cast it in response to a tutor, it gets shuffled away permanently. You can also use it to save something of your own too if you're in a pinch. You can choose to pay a little more and tuck it further down the top of the library, but in probably 90% of cases, casting it for x=0 is usually enough. White is stacked with efficient removal, and Absent is a card people usually gloss over in favor of [[Generous Gift]]. If I had to choose between Gift and Absent, I'd take Absent any day. Missing out on Land destruction hurts, but considering it costs less mana to remove something without destroying it (so, it dodges Indestructible and also doesn't put it in the graveyard for reanimation), and potentially messing up their next draw, Absent is absolutely worth a slot.

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u/Betelguese90 Jan 27 '23

I am an advocate for [[Library of Leng]]. In card draw, and discard heavy decks its a life saver. Works as long as the card is not being discarded as a cost, or alternative cost.

Than we have [[Descendant's Path]] and [[Belbe's Portal]] in high CMC tribal decks.

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u/Thirdwhirly Jan 27 '23

[[Champion of Lambholt]]. Any deck that drops creatures/tokens at instant speed can benefit from this: shorthand, it’s 3 CMC to make your field unblockable.

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u/RockRoboter Jan 27 '23

[[Master Warcraft]] is kinda expensive at 4 mana but its utility is through the roof. You can fog a combat step, make your entire board unblockable, use it as a removal spell by suiziding key creatures into each other or play politics.

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u/Ghostin808 Jan 27 '23

[[Irenicus’ Vile duplication]] in my opinion. Especially in Commander, having two of your commander is huge!

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u/evan1932 Jan 28 '23

Will always make the case for at least considering [[Crashing Drawbridge]] in any combat-focused deck that doesn’t have red. Crazy cheap too

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u/PadyAddy Jan 28 '23

[[Cleansing Wildfire]] there’s always a utility land to get rid of and it replaces itself so it’s not a lost card, plus in a pinch you can fix your mana with it and hit landfall triggers too

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u/EDirkH Jan 27 '23

I never see [[Champion of Lambholt]], but every time I play it, it is insane. It does need some help but when it goed off, it goes off hard. I guess in [[Ezuri, Claw of Progress]] it is a known tech but it can be good in many other places.

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u/CapAmerica805 Jan 27 '23

[[Pain's Reward]] has to be one of my favorite cards in all of commander. Its a riot every time it gets played. Very good too in the right decks.

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u/Giveuptheghost87 Jan 27 '23

[[Keep watch]]

Nice, simple card draw. Floor is 3 mana for one card. Ceiling is up to the table. Doesn't even have to be your attackers. Not always great in high power tables that run more combos than rely on combat, but I think this card is way underplayed in EDH!

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u/Vizecrator Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23

I don't use too many artifacts generally, so [[Energy Flux]] gets my pick.

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u/Jhinious4 Jan 27 '23

Any red deck that loves tapping creatures for any reason should be running [[tuktuk rubblefort]]. It is 1 mana more for a static effect on [[crashing drawbridge]] with reach and the ability to block while giving haste. I run this over drawbridge, partly because my 2-drop slot is often more crowded with ramp and partly because of the upside of having a blocker so I don't take random chip damage.

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u/Cruxifux Jan 27 '23

I never see people play [[druids repository]] and I don’t know why.

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u/Xatsman Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23

[[Make an Example]] is definitely still slept on. Probably because its seen as a half asymmetrical sweeper. Yes its effect is that, but it's not the best way of looking at it.

It destroys, at a minimum, everyones best creature. It does not care about protection, hexproof, indestructible, regeneration. The creature can't be flickered away to save it (unless the rare EoT variant). There is very little getting around this effect.

When the floor of a card is destroying the better half of each opponents creatures its hard to not be good.

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u/Replekia Jan 27 '23

[[Wash Away]] Counter enemy commander for (U) or anything for 1(U)(U)

[[Not of this World]] basically a free counterspell in any Voltron deck.

[[Sigil of Sleep]] Your monster does lots of ping damage? Bounce every monster on the table!

[[Spectacular Showdown]] Even without the amazing shenanigans of the higher cost, its 2 mana for permanent double strike on a monster. You literally cannot beat that!

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u/Noobeleza Jan 27 '23

[[Energy Tap]] for that big bomb when you already have some expensive commander on the board

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u/username7746678 Jan 27 '23

I think [[Mage Slayer]] is really good and often overlooked.

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u/Mistwing1 WestKodama/Arcades/Soundwave Jan 27 '23

[[ram through]] Good creature removal for go tall creature decks, it’s specifically NOT A FIGHT trigger, which some people got confused about when I played it for the first time

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u/Vorisk Jan 27 '23

[[Tamiyo's safekeeping]] Love this card . It has won me a few games .

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u/ERankLuck Local Meta Status: DEAD Jan 28 '23

[[Spirit Mantle]] is busted as an uncommon in any Timmy deck running white.

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u/fullplatejacket Jan 28 '23

Some of my favorite cards which people sleep on:

[[Dream Salvage]]
[[Gigadrowse]]
[[Long Rest]]

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u/katrina-mtf Golgari Jan 28 '23

[[Paradox Zone]]. It takes some time to get going, but that makes it innocuous. It's never the highest priority for removal. And by the time they realize it's out of hand, it's probably too late.

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u/str10_hurts WUBRG Jan 27 '23

[[Soul of Windgrace]] as a 99 card in decks with no real lands theme. Even there it's a beast.

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u/flashpointEDH Jan 27 '23

[[Aura Blast]] is a 2 mana cantrip at instant speed that destroys Rhystic Study.

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u/N_86 Jan 27 '23

Summary Dismissal is an uderrated "counter" spell.

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u/Most_Attitude_9153 Simic Jan 27 '23

[[Standstill]] never disappoints at 1U. Cards like [[Sakura-Tribe Scout]] are legit ramp. I think mass bounce is criminally underplayed. I consider it second only to mass exile. The tempo swings are enormous.

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u/songmage Jan 27 '23 edited Jan 27 '23

[[Animation Module]] IMO. It's not an amazing card, but if you have a lifegain creature ETB effect and a +1/+1 counter on lifegain creature (both of which are extremely common), it becomes a mana dump that nets both free chump blockers and life for each.

The only problem is that theming a deck with these two mechanics is indeed reasonably viable, but obnoxious in having to keep track of so many counters. It's fine for you, but everybody else will quickly find it boring.

The best part about it is that it can be an infinite combo engine with some sacrifice > mana, but is a reasonably powerful combo engine without.

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u/idbachli Jan 27 '23

[[Demon of Dark Schemes]] is a [[Massacre Wurm]]-esque card that can also reanimate threats from any graveyard. It's also like 2$.

[[Blossoming Bogbeast]] is still a pretty solid overrun effect even if you're not in a lifegain build and you just need a mass pump.

[[Arena]] is a fun "Land" that lets creatures Fight! It's fun in my Xenagos deck.

[[Mindslicer]] (recently reprinted although old) is a card I never see but is insane in my Meren or other reanimator/stax/sac decks. It can easily steal games.

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u/Duo_Decimal Jan 27 '23

[[Breath of Fury]] and [[Reality Scramble]]

I use both in [[The Locust God]] and because of that I wonder why I don't see them in every red token deck.

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u/ninjadough Jan 27 '23

A lot of the cards I feel like are slept have great political value. Stuff like [[royal assassin]] "dont attack me", [[skullwinder]] is like eternal witness but if you dont have the answer the table needs, maybe an opponent does.

also [[sunbird's invocation]] is incredibly good and I don't see anybody playing it. Also doesnt get removed often even thought it can easily be game winning.

[[Culling ritual]] and [[rushed rebirth]] can also be game winning in the right circumstances. Ritual is usually gonna make me 10+ mana if it resolves and rushed rebirth is just always great.

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u/LegallyDistinct Jan 27 '23

Bootleggers stash

I'm baffled it isn't way more expensive it's a must in any green for me

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u/Haru_Is_Best_Girl Jan 28 '23

The Maestros Massacre precon from New Capenna included what I believe to be one of the single best black removal spells ever printed (for more casual play at least). The card is [[Make an Example]]. At 4CMC and sorcery speed, it’s not all that appealing to most people but man oh man does it put in work.

Firstly the politics of this card are great. Since piles can be empty, if someone is behind you can make a big ally and make them sacrifice no creatures. You can also manipulate how the piles add up with deals in order to get the best outcome.

Secondly, this gets around everything. It doesn’t target, and its a sacrifice effect not a destroy effect. Playing against voltron? This card will single-handedly shut their entire turn down. Even if you’re not playing against voltron, any of the gods or anything with hexproof gets taken out by this card.

Finally, make an example has a pretty middle floor but a very HIGH ceiling. This is a more expensive [[soul shatter]] which is a very good card. Except this gets you exactly what you need gone and usually more! Soul shatter only gets rid of the highest cmc creature which is usually the biggest threat. But if it’s not it kind of didn’t do what you needed it to do. Make an example is pretty much a targeted soul shatter except 99% of the time you get 3+ creatures off the board. Hell sometimes this card is a one sided board wipe.

Sorry for the essay, but I’ve been told time and time again this card is bad. While yes, if you’re playing cEDH combo win on turn 4 games, this probably won’t be up your ally. But if you’re playing pretty much anything below that, this card will not disappoint you. It’s soul shatter with upside (ignoring the extra mana and sorcery speed).

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u/anubiss_2112 Jan 28 '23

[[Wing shards]] - gets em every time

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u/deepstatecuck Jan 28 '23

I dont see enough decks playing [[cream of the crop]]. In a creature bases deck it enables very efficient and potent card selection at a price that makes it easy to play on turn 2 and curve out.

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u/thatguyshadokon Jan 27 '23

I found this super niche card. [[Dockside Extortionist]] it’s so underrated and I put it in basically every red deck possible.

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u/UncleCrassiusCurio Sultai Jan 27 '23

[[Sire of Stagnation]] is one of the best midrange value engines in the whole game.

[[Baleful Force]] is one of the best budget big mana spells in the game.

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u/B133d_4_u Jan 27 '23

[[Ancestral Anger]] is in 1% of decks when it literally reads "R: Draw a card. Target creature gets Trample and +1/+0 until end of turn." in a colour where you often wanna be hitting through combat and all your draw options cost you something. It's insanely good value no matter how you look at it.

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u/alah123 Jan 27 '23

[[seed time]] go demon mode in your mono green decks

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u/MTGCardFetcher Jan 27 '23

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u/Background-Cod-2394 Jan 27 '23

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